If you are assigning a domain to your Pressable account and want to know how to update your Porkbun DNS records accordingly, we share instructions below.
Domain Setup Wizard
Pressable has a Domain Setup Wizard option, which makes connecting your Porkbun domain to your Pressable site a breeze! Learn more here.
Pointing Porkbun Nameservers to Pressable
Log into your Porkbun account and navigate to the Domain Management page. To the right of your domain, click on the “Details” button.
Click the “edit” link beneath the listed nameservers, and update those to use Pressable’s:
ns1.openhostingservice.comns2.openhostingservice.comns3.openhostingservice.comns4.openhostingservice.comns5.openhostingservice.com
You can read Porkbun’s how-to guide on how to update nameservers here →
Note: that if you already have email hosting for your domain, we recommend getting in touch with us prior to changing the name servers to minimize/prevent any email downtime.
Pointing Porkbun A Records to Pressable
Log into your Porkbun account and navigate to the Domain Management page. To the right of your domain, click on the “Details” button.
Click the “edit” button beneath “DNS Records” to set your custom A records. That will open a popup window:
You will want to create four A records. Two will be blank on the “host” field, and two will have “www” in the host field.
- In the “host” field, leave the entry blank. In the “answer” field, enter one of the provided IPs for your site. For example, 199.16.172.23. Press the “Add” button.
- Create a duplicate record with the second provided IP address.
- Create a third A record, but this time enter “www” into the host field, and one of our IPs in the answer field.
- Create a duplicate record for www with the other IP address.
When you are finished, your records will look similar to the following:
You can read Porkbun’s help article on updating A records here →
(Optional) Re-provision SSL Certificate
If you added your domain on the Pressable control panel before pointing it via DNS, you may need to re-provision the SSL certificate. You can do this from the Domains tab in your control panel by clicking Actions ▼ → Retry SSL.
For detailed steps, visit our SSL Troubleshooting Guide.
Yoast Indexables
If Yoast (Yoast SEO or Yoast SEO Premium plugins) is used on a website and a domain is added or changed (new site, cloned site, etc) without taking steps afterward, it can result in the staging domain or previous domain showing in search results. Please follow the information here to ensure the proper domain is reflected within search results.